Eyesight and school life . o give toomuch writing. All is eye work, and notes fromlectures are taken down by girls until the numberof note books and exercise books which theyhave in use is frequently very large. A good deal has during the last few years beenwritten as to the position pupils should occupywhen writing, and whether the writing should bevertical or slanting. The latter held sway forlong, but there is evidence that to some extent it isbeing superseded by upright penmanship, andwill in the future be more so. For my part I amsatisfied that for the objects one has in view forobviating
Eyesight and school life . o give toomuch writing. All is eye work, and notes fromlectures are taken down by girls until the numberof note books and exercise books which theyhave in use is frequently very large. A good deal has during the last few years beenwritten as to the position pupils should occupywhen writing, and whether the writing should bevertical or slanting. The latter held sway forlong, but there is evidence that to some extent it isbeing superseded by upright penmanship, andwill in the future be more so. For my part I amsatisfied that for the objects one has in view forobviating sight failure, the upright is to be pre-ferred to the slanting method. Some interestingevidence as to the opinion of teachers on thispoint has recently come before me. The headmaster of a Board School in answer to an inquiryfrom me as to what he thought of the uprightmanner of writing, and the influence it had uponthe posture of the scholars, replied that for longhe had been convinced that it was well nigh 44 EYESIGHT AND. SCHOOL LIFE. 45 impossible to get with the slanting method anatural pose of the body unless the paper weretwisted, and then the lines of writing had to belooked at obliquely, and that he had thereforeabandoned it, and for the last eighteen months hehad employed in his school the Civil Service style,which, he said, was as near upright as possiblewithout being so, and was free from all kinds ofelaborate turnings and twists. The results weremost gratifying. He said, I have no hesitation ,in saying that I have now far less trouble to getan upright position of body, and that the habitof turning the head on one side and lookingat the writing obliquely has practically instance came about in this way. Ienquired of an assistant elementary teacher ifupright writing was used in her school, andshe answered that since a new head mistress hadbeen appointed, a couple of years before, it hadbeen introduced, and the altered position of thegirls at their writin
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